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There were many solid smartphones to choose from in 2021, with the tastes of Asus, Motorola, Samsung, Xiaomi and more, all delivering products in several price segments. In fact, we would say that it was difficult to buy a really bad phone this year.

But what did you think of these phones at the time of their launch? We publish surveys throughout the year, asking if a new phone was "fashionable" or "no." Now we are finishing the year, we think it would be a good ideaTake these results of the survey to see which devices were hotter and which ones, well ... no.

Only to clarify, we chose to obtain results that received 1,000 votes or more to obtain a more precise image of the reader's feeling. That means that some notable phones such as OnePlus Nord 2, Oppo Find X3, I live X70 Pro Plus and Asus Zenfone 8 were lostThe cut since they simply did not attract the minimum amount of voters.

In any case, our graphic below shows the proportion of "hot" votes in green in front of the "no" votes in red.

The hottest and coldest phones of 2021

The great winners

The most popular 2021 device according to readers was a big surprise. More than 91% of the readers surveyed said that Sharp Aquos R6 was a hot device, so it is the only phone on this list that crosses the threshold of 90%The Sharp flagship offered outstanding features such as a 20MP gigantic camera sensor of an inch (the only rear camera on the phone apart from the Tof sensor), a 240Hz OLED panel, a 5,000MAH battery and a 3.5 port of 3.5mm. The great disadvantage is that this phone (and the Leitz Phone 1 variant is only available in Japan.

Our second place was the Google Pixel 6 series, since 86.3% of the readers surveyed at that time thought that the phones were hot.Be phones receive sets from internal tensioning chips for the first time, at the same time they receive notable updates updatesof battery and a new main camera for the first time in years. It does not harm that the Pixel 6 base begins in just $ 600, stealing the thunder of devices such as OnePlus 9 and Galaxy S21.

The Xiaomi Mix 4 took third place, with 85.3% of the respondents saying that it was hot at that time. This is Xiaomi's first phone with a camera for selfies under the screen and the first mixed phone commercially available fromMy Mix 3 5g of 2019.

Samsung and OnePlus phones were not located on Top 10, according to our Hot or Not surveys throughout the year.

In fourth place was the Redmi Note 10 series, since 83.5% of the readers surveyed thought that these phones were fashionable. The Redmi Pro model brought a 108MP main camera and a 120Hz OLED screen to the range segment to the rangemedium. The Redmi Note 10 standard was not far behind, offering a 60Hz OLED panel at the budget level.

Completing the first five was the Sony Xperia ProClearly, readers seemed to like phones that offered giant camera sensors.

Great losers

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There were only four telephone lines that received more "no" votes than "hot votes" at the time of launch. And the great loser in this regard was Apple's iPhone 13 series, which received 21.7% of the "hot votes»Compared to 88.3% of respondents who voted" no. "We can not say that we were surprised to give our approach to Android and the fact that most readers are Android users.

However, what about Android phones? It turns out that the least popular Android devices in this regard are OnePlus 9 (29.5% hot) and OnePlus 9 Pro (32.8% hot). Comments on our article by our articleOriginal results suggest that the problem is the company's software support, together with the increase in costs over the years.

OnePlus did not do any favor with the OnePlus 9, eliminating the wireless load of the Indian variant and not providing an official IP classification to the unlocked model. For what it is worth, we think that the OnePlus 9 Pro was the best OnePlus phone in years, contrastingstrongly with the initial reception of the reader.

This could serve as evidence of how the initial reaction to the launch of a telephone does not always align with the reactions months later. But it could also suggest that the Galaxy S21 and the S21 Plus dragged the Ultra downward S21 at the time of our original surveyThe three phones lacked microSD support, but the base model lacked a glass backup, while the base and plus variants had an FHD +screen resolution.

Did this ranking surprised you? Do you think any phone deserved to be much higher or lower? Let us know below.

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